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Election 2024

Election 2024

Everything you need to know about the local, state and federal elections in 2024.

That photo of people wearing 'Nebraska Walz's for Trump' shirts? They're distant cousins

That photo of people wearing 'Nebraska Walz's for Trump' shirts? They're distant cousins

A sister of Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz says she doesn’t recognize the people wearing “Nebraska Walz’s for Trump” T-shirts in a photo that is making the rounds on social media. It turns out they are distant cousins.
by Steve Karnowski, Associated Press

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Tim Walz's NRA rating went from A to F. It's part of a shift from Democrats on guns

Tim Walz's NRA rating went from A to F. It's part of a shift from Democrats on guns

Vice presidential nominee Tim Walz went from being endorsed by the NRA to a fierce advocate for gun control. That evolution reflects a larger shift that has been happening within the Democratic Party over the last decade.
by Mia Venkat and Ari Shapiro

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JD Vance’s Catholicism helped shape his views. So did this little-known group of Catholic thinkers

JD Vance’s Catholicism helped shape his views. So did this little-known group of Catholic thinkers

Ohio Sen. JD Vance’s 2019 conversion to Catholicism helped shape his political worldview. It also put him in close touch with a Catholic intellectual movement known as postliberalism. 
by The Associated Press

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U.S. accuses Russia of using state media to spread disinformation before the November election

U.S. accuses Russia of using state media to spread disinformation before the November election

The Biden administration announced wide-ranging actions Wednesday meant to call out Russian influence in the upcoming U.S. presidential election, unsealing criminal charges against two employees of a Russian state-run media company and seizing internet domains used by the Kremlin to spread disinformation.
by The Associated Press

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Here’s why many election experts aren’t freaking out about certification this year

Here’s why many election experts aren’t freaking out about certification this year

Watchdog groups and pundits are sounding the alarm about the potential for mischief when it comes to certifying vote tallies, but election experts have confidence in the system's guardrails.
by Miles Parks

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Meet the evangelicals trying to make a case for VP Harris

Meet the evangelicals trying to make a case for VP Harris

More than 80% of white evangelicals supported Donald Trump in 2016 and 2020, but a new group is trying to push some of those voters to the camp of Democratic nominee vice president Kamala Harris.
by Jason DeRose

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Harris opposes U.S. Steel's sale to a Japanese firm during joint Pennsylvania event with Biden

Harris opposes U.S. Steel's sale to a Japanese firm during joint Pennsylvania event with Biden

Vice President Kamala Harris has used a joint campaign appearance with President Joe Biden in the swing state of Pennsylvania to say that U.S. Steel should remain domestically owned.
by The Associated Press

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The presidential campaigns brace for an intense sprint to Election Day

The presidential campaigns brace for an intense sprint to Election Day

The Democratic vice president and the Republican former president will focus almost all of their remaining time and resources on a small collection of undecided voters in just seven states.
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